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Sauce for the Goose, and All That Jazz

The men’s U.S. soccer team goes to the quarterfinals of the World Cup in the “world’s” game and pushes eventual runner-up and perennial world power Germany to the limit before succumbing.

The men’s U.S. basketball team goes to the quarterfinals of the World Championship in a game we invented and blows a 10-point lead in losing to a team that lost half its best players to political disintegration.

How sweet it is.

Robert Bruce

Long Beach

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